Articles in this Issue
The Bones in Mr. Eliot’s Closet
Rediscovering the patron saint of all the flawed and haunted seekers of modernity.
Death and Texas
How a self-styled “Community Conversation” turned into an anti-conversation carried on by an anti-community.
The 150% Person
The marginal person who learns to adjust can help heal the conflicts between races and cultures.
In Brief: November 01, 2000
Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, Thomas Boston as Preacher of the Fourfold State, Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901-2000, Twentieth Century America: A Brief History
Living by Law, Looking for Intimacy
What Christians can learn from the debates that divide American Jews. This is the first installment in a five-part series.
The Universe Has a Mind of Its Own
A conversation with Templeton Prize-winner Freeman Dyson.
Don’t Ask the Founders
Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America
A Terribly Undemocratic Thought
Is universal suffrage a failure?
Poetry: Why Bother?
Reading for “soul-culture.”
The Two Eliots
To all appearance, a biographer writes, “Eliot was conventional, mild, decorous, yet the hidden character was daring and savage.”